Sauron paced the room.
One step, two steps, three steps, four steps... Slowly walk to the end of the room, turn around, walk back again, walk to the end of another room, and turn around again.
Just like that, keep repeating.
He whispered vaguely: "Eleven portions, eleven portions..."
Halfway through pacing, he seemed to hear something and turned his head to look at the door.
"Ta-ta-ta..."
The next moment, some hurried footsteps sounded, and a wizard wearing a blue robe walked over, also one of Sauron's men. His name is Abu Yule. He is not weak in strength, but his ability to save his life is even stronger. More than three years ago, I followed Sauron in the national war and the attack on the Society of Truth, and even faced the gray fog.
Of course he was no match for Gray Mist, but to survive the battle with Gray Mist, apart from being lucky, his strength should not be underestimated. In that battle, in order to resist the attack of the gray mist, he frantically stacked dozens of energy shields on his body. He was nicknamed the "Hundred Shield Wizard" and the "Iron Shell Wizard". This was a mockery of his need to save his life. Completely gave up the offense.
He was not angry about this somewhat insulting title. Instead, he accepted it calmly. In the past three years, he had intensively studied various defensive spells to make himself worthy of the name.
In his opinion, there is no shame in a wizard doing anything to save his life in battle. After all, only by surviving can he do other things, and only by living can he be effective in fighting.
Abu Yule, who believed in the concept of defense first and had extremely strong defense, seemed a little unable to withstand the attack from a certain direction at this time. He walked into the door with an ugly face and a piece of gold-gilded paper in his hand.
Sauron glanced at it without reading the content. As if he knew what Abu Yule had taken, he said, "The twelfth order?"
"Yes, General." Abu Yule nodded, "The content is the same as before, but..."
"Tougher words?"
"Um."
"Okay, got it." Sauron said lightly. He waved his hand as he spoke and pointed to a round table in the corner. "Put it there. There is no need to read it - since the content is the same, reading it is a waste of time."
"Yes." Yule responded, walked to the round table pointed by Sauron, put the paper with Char's order on it, and saw that there were already a dozen similar ones on it.
After putting it away, Yule turned back and looked at Sauron, but stopped talking.
"If there's anything you want to say, just say it. There's no need to hold it back."
"Yes, General." Yule breathed out and said, "I want to ask, are we just dragging it out like this? It has been three days, and there are already twelve copies of Xiaya's orders, which has never happened before. From this aspect, it can be seen how much Charia attaches great importance to this matter. If it continues like this, it will not be good for us, the reef fort, and the entire military."
"Of course I know this, Wizard Yule." Sauron responded, pacing again, while walking, "Don't say that Xia Ya came with twelve orders in a row, even two orders in a row, it has already been explained. Char's attitude changed.
You should also understand the cause of this matter - His new Majesty has been purging the disobedient forces after taking the throne. Therefore, the people from the Judgment Court went to Sarin Atlanta City to arrest a fugitive who once worked for the Fourth Prince. .
Unexpectedly, the fugitive was not recaptured, and a member of the ruling court was still detained there for hard labor. What was even worse was that a deputy chief judge, who seemed to be a member of the Antonio family, was killed on the spot because he injured an official member of Sarin. The chief judge also mysteriously disappeared in Atlanta, and his life and death are still unknown.
These situations can be regarded as a great contempt for the tribunal, and the person standing behind the tribunal is the new majesty, which is undoubtedly a slap in the face of the new majesty. The new Majesty will naturally be angry, so he ordered us to send troops to let Salin see the 'color' and let Salin give an explanation. "
Walking to the end of the room, Sauron stopped without turning around. He turned his back to the wizard Yule in the blue robe and continued: "Actually, the new majesty is continuing to test Sarin. The people from the previous ruling court went to arrest the fugitive. It was a test of Sarin, but the test failed. The new His Majesty did not give up and started a second test. He wanted to know how tough Sarin's attitude was and whether he was still willing to be ruled by the alliance. .”
After pouting, Sauron turned around and waved all the men in the command room to leave, leaving only the wizard Yule. He narrowed his eyes and said: "To be honest, the new Majesty's move is not to test us and the military. , Testing the Reef Castle? More than three years ago, the victory of the national war with Sika and the annihilation of the Truth Society was an excellent opportunity to make the alliance stronger. Who knew, first His Majesty Peter died, and then the eldest prince succeeded to the throne After being assassinated, the whole Xia became a mess.
In the following more than two years of struggle between various forces, the alliance continued to weaken. It was not until the new Majesty succeeded to the throne not long ago that it could be considered a breath of relief. During this process, I have been working hard to guard the military and prevent it from getting involved in political factional battles, which would prevent the alliance from falling into the crisis of civil war or even division.
I think I did something right, but everything has its advantages and disadvantages - the alliance has been able to maintain its unity and its military strength has not been too affected, which is an advantage, but the disadvantage is... The new His Majesty who succeeded to the throne , no longer trust the military.
This time, let us send troops to Sarin. On the one hand, it is to test the attitude of Sarin, and on the other hand, it is also to test our attitude. Therefore, twelve orders were issued in three days. "
"Then General... Why don't we carry out the order and keep delaying it like this?" Yule was confused, then thought of a possibility, shrank his eyes, and asked in a low voice tentatively, "Our military has always been Allegiance to the Alliance, right?”
Sauron looked at Yule, looked directly at Yule's face, the air pressure in the room dropped slightly, and then chuckled: "Of course. Wizard Yule, regarding this, you can rest assured that the military will always be loyal to the Alliance. "
"It's just..." Sauron changed his tone and said, "Being loyal to the Alliance is not completely equivalent to being loyal to Char, let alone being loyal to the new Majesty."
Yule's breath stagnated, he looked at Sauron, and curled up his hands subconsciously. This was a subconscious action on his part to try to release the energy shield.
It had to be said that Sauron's words made him feel a little dangerous. If he was not careful, he might be silenced. Even if he thought he was Sauron's confidant, it was the same. After all, the information in Sauron's words makes people shudder when they think about it.
Sauron glanced at Yule, shook his head slightly, and said angrily: "Don't think too much, Wizard Yule, I don't want to rebel! It's just that the chaos of the past three years has given me some doubts and thoughts. "